Health Care

ENTEBBE (Uganda)— Uganda has received a shipment of 1,200 Ebola vaccine doses from the World Health Organization for clinical trials.Three vaccine options – one from the University of Oxford and Serum Institute of India, another by the Sabin Vaccine In...

NAIROBI— Two people were on Thursday killed when a light aircraft they were flying in crashed at the Tsavo East National Park.The two included the pilot, who was a former popular Kenya Wildlife Service warden, and a co pilot.The pilot was identified as...

GENEVA— The global number of malaria cases and deaths generally remained stable in 2021, thanks to redoubled efforts by affected countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.According to the WHO’s latest World Malaria Report, there were an estim...

KAMPALA— Uganda said on Thursday that it has heightened security in all its national parks after a ranger was killed by armed poachers.The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), a state-run agency charged with wildlife conservation, said in a statement that ...

The number of hungry people in West and Central Africa could reach a record high of 48 million next year, which should serve as a final “wake-up call” for regional governments to act now, three UN agencies said on Thursday. More than 35 million people,...

Police in northwestern Nigeria have launched a manhunt for gunmen who killed six people, including four police officers, at a market near the border with Niger.A spokesman for the Sokoto state police command, Sanusi Abubakar, said armed men on motorcyc...

GENEVA— Negotiators are meeting in Geneva this week to thrash out a pandemic treaty aimed at ensuring the flaws that turned Covid-19 into a global crisis could never happen again.As the third anniversary of the virus emerging rolls around, negotiators ...

DAR ES SALAAM— The French Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania, Nabil Hahjlaoui, pledged his country’s commitment to support EAC-Led Nairobi Process, on restoration of peace and security in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Hahjlaoui mad...